[StormEye]

"a two-term, hard-line conservative U.S. senator and a 2008 candidate for the Republican presidential nomination, ..."

He's a "hard line" conservative. That's just awful.
Of course Obama and his communist Democrats are never, ever "hard line." They are all bipartisan, compromising, understanding, compassionate politicians with the nation's best interests at heart.

[Slings and Arrows]

The Left thought Nixon was a hard-line conservative. “Conservative” is just their word for “bad.”